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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 57 km WSW of Talkeetna, Alaska


Earthquake location 62.036S, -151.0269WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 57 kilometers (35 miles) from Talkeetna in Alaska. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:15:44 / 4:15 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 3 km (2 miles). A tsunami warning has been issued near Talkeetna in Alaska (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, -151.0269° West, 62.036° North, depth 3 km. Unique identifier: at00ohnwu8. Ids that are associated to the event: at00ohnwu8. Exact time and date of earthquake 04/12/16 / 2016-12-04 13:15:44 / December 4, 2016 @ 1:15 pm UTC/GMT.

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tanaina, Knik-Fairview, Meadow Lakes. The epicenter was 95 km (59 miles) from Knik-Fairview (c. 14 900 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Tanaina (c. 8 200 pop), 88 km (54 miles) from Meadow Lakes (c. 7 600 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days eighty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 57 km WSW of Talkeetna, Alaska.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -151.0269° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 62.036° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 57km WSW of Talkeetna, Alaska Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-12-04 13:15:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-12-04 13:25:29 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 18 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status REVIEWED Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 1 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 319 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network at The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,at, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 59 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.5147347 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.28 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 35.99999712 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type Ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID at00ohnwu8 Id of event.
Event Code 00ohnwu8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,at00ohnwu8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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